Today, more than ever, it’s very easy to start an online business, because the barrier of entry is very low and there are a wealth of possibilities & ideas that you can develop online.
I want to speak from my own experience, of many trials and errors and give you my 75 best online business ideas for beginners, to start earning an income online.
I’ve been creating websites since the ’90s and ventured into eCommerce very early. I am a part-time online entrepreneur, transitioning to full-time eventually. I work for a global company dedicated to building applications and have two different affiliate businesses.
I have learned from the best mentors in online marketing, so I want to share with you the best information that I’ve extracted from their courses and from my own experience.
It takes time to succeed in this game but the possibilities are endless. Let’s get started.
1. Start a Blog
Building a website with a topic you’re passionate about and monetize using ads and links to affiliate products, is one of the most popular online businesses you can create. You don’t need to be a guru nor have any design experience, you merely need to write about topics that interest you and want to share with the world.
You must create content periodically, do keyword research, optimize your content for those keywords, create great content and build backlinks to it.
Learn from the masters at this, people who are successful bloggers and have created specialized training to succeed. Learn how to blog following market demand, not just passion, and learn how to monetize correctly after your blog starts getting some traffic.
Blogging is a simple business model, that takes time to build but you can eventually earn passive income using affiliate links and ads.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Another simple, yet powerful business model that is very popular, affiliate marketing means promoting someone else’s product or service and earning a commission for it.
Same as with blogging, this has to be done right If you want to succeed, so again I stress out to learn from the best people who have proven systems and follow their path.
There are many affiliate product networks out there like:
- Amazon
- Clickbank
- jet.com affiliates
- Offervault
- Rakuten
- Warrior+
- Flexoffers
- Shareasale.com
- Commission Junction
- Avangate
- Maxbounty
- Peerfly
- JVZoo
The most important aspects that I’ve learned about selecting a product or service to promote is this, make sure it’s within your niche, that is of interest to your targeted audience and that is a reputable company that will pay you recurring commissions and is able to upsell and retain customers.
3. Become an Influencer
With the rise of so many social media channels, especially YouTube, Instagram, consumers are increasingly turning to them for product advice.
Start by posting videos or photos on any of these social platforms. Most likely, they won’t be very good when you’re getting started but as you gain more experience, they will become better and better. Keep in mind that initially, nobody will see them until you gain more momentum. With time, your content will be better, you’ll be more confident, and keep improving.
After you have a status, you can use it earn sponsored posts, advertising campaigns, events, promote products & services.
4. Start an E-Commerce Business
COVID has accelerated e-commerce 4-6 years, retailers are all moving online and closing brick and mortar stores.
With e-commerce there are several routes you can go:
- Dropshipping – post products from wholesales but let the suppliers manage all the shipping
- Selling products through Amazon FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon)
- Create your own store using Shopify or WooCommerce. Select a template, set up your store and sell your own products and services
There are many free courses on YouTube that will help you learn any of the methods described above, to get started.
5. Start a Podcast
Like blogs, you can generate income through Podcasts. The key aspect here is to gain an audience that trusts you and this can be easier to do through a Podcast.
Another advantage is that you can create a Podcast for free and you can record it using your smartphone. Some platforms where you can host your podcast for free are: Anchor.fm (app in Android or iPhone) or BuzzSprout.
6. Drop Servicing
This is a quite new method to create an income online. It involves you being a mediator where you sell services to customers and then hiring someone else that will actually provide the service for a lower price to you, pocketing the difference.
You become responsible mainly to deliver the services with quality and on time.
I strongly suggest that you have expertise in the service you’re offering, understand the requirements, communicate effectively with your service supplier, and ensure the service has the quality requirements.
7. Virtual Assistant
VAs are common these days to help to manage all types of administrative tasks like email handling, appointments, video editing, document writing, and pretty much any in-house staff task you can think of.
The business model is that hiring VAs is 60 – 80% cheaper than hiring a full-time employee.
If you have time and want to handle administrative tasks for companies or individuals, you can advertise yourself in several freelancing websites like Fiverr or Upwork.
8. Publish a Book
No matter what type of book you are thinking of, science fiction, children’s book, novel or manual, there are so many different options to successfully publish your work. You just need to type it in any word processor and release it PDF, digital document or hire an on-demand printing service like CreateSpace.
You can sell your ebook in an online store, on Amazon, or through a Digital Downloads app that makes them available as a product.
Once the purchase comes through, you can deliver your book as a download or through an email.
Self-publishing makes it easy to get your books available to potential readers and make money.
9. Start an FBA (Fulfilment by Amazon) Business
Another popular business model is selling products using Amazon’s infrastructure, to list them and deliver to customers. In essence, you are leveraging Amazon’s distribution network and customer base. Amazon will also handle customer service and returns.
To the customer, there is almost no difference between purchasing from Amazon directly or through FBA, same delivery returns policy, and customer service.
You send your stock to Amazon FBA and focus on getting sales, that is in a nutshell what this business model is about.
10. Translation Services
If you like translation services and are fluent in several languages, you can work translating documents for companies, first on a freelancing service like Fiverr, and eventually create your own website and offer the services yourself, with a team to help you.
11. Web or Mobile Application Programming
The demand for quality programmers and custom application programming has skyrocketed in the past few years. Companies around the world struggle to find quality software programmers to satisfy the demand for launching new applications.
If this is a path that interests you, I suggest starting a career in this area, by taking an online training/certification in sites like Coursera, Udemy, Pluralsight, Linkedin Learning, etc.
You can start offering services on a freelancing website, offer competitive prices, and slowly transform it into a more lucrative business by increasing your portfolio of customers.
12. Create a YouTube Channel
There are plenty of opportunities to start a YouTube channel and make money with it. Your ability to create engaging content will play a crucial part in how well your channel does.
Maybe in the beginning you will create raw videos that will not be very good, keep in mind that not many people will watch them anyway. Beyond video #100, you will gain more and more confidence, create more quality content and take off with a successful channel.
The good thing about this model is that you can create many types of videos and you don’t necessarily need to appear in them. You might just put a presentation or some custom content and only do a voice-over.
There are even several AI voice-over softwares in the market that do the voice-over for you automatically, so you only need to supply a script.
13. Graphic Design
If graphic design is your passion, there is a myriad of possibilities to profit from it. You have the option to be in it full-time or freelance some projects.
The path I recommend is to start freelancing, find some gigs, acquire some experience, build your portfolio and move from there.
Once you earn your first commissión, excitement builds up and moves you towards setting up your own shop increase.
14. Photography
If you’re a gifted photographer, you can exchange your talent for cash. Several sites like Shutterstock for example will pay a commission for pictures they buy from you. You sell the rights and allow millions of users to download your pictures.
You can charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars for pictures, depending on your talent and effectiveness.
15. Open a T-Shirt Online Shop
Companies like Vistaprint, UberPrints, Designhill, and eCommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce, have made it extremely simple to start an online t-shirt business, and it doesn’t just have to be t-shirts, you can pretty much sell anything.
Learn the print-on-demand keys, to be successful and are the base of this business.
16. Earn Money Shopping Online, Browsing the Internet, and watching videos
There are several apps you can download to your phone to earn money while shopping online, browse the Internet, and watching videos. You can also fill out some surveys, play online games, participate in polls, strangely as it sounds, you can gain money by doing that.
One application I’ve had experience with is Swagbucks, which let’s earn money and gift cards by doing the activities I just described.
Just make sure the application works in the country you currently reside in.
17. Start a Home-Based Coaching Business: Fitness, Live, Career, etc.
Enjoy working with people and help them achieve their goals? This could be your career opportunity to create an income online.
One of the great advantages today is that technology has expanded the ability to provide coaching services. Video conferencing for example would allow you to coach clients all over the world.
There are many types of coaching you can do, life and fitness being the most popular. You can also do other types of coaching like health, relationships, productivity, sales, etc.
I strongly suggest you get some kind of certification to gain clients’ trust, which is the most important thing.
Create your materials, videos, equipment to connect like software and headphones, and you’re ready to go. Build a website where you can promote yourself and your brand.
18. Sell an Online Course
Online courses are the new trend in education and it is projected to replace formal education (colleges and universities), sometime in the future. The reasons are simple, tuition rates are becoming unpayable, knowledge advances quicker than the years it takes to earn a degree and salaries are not matching what students owe in debt. You can add that to the fact that the knowledge you gained as a student, becomes obsolete quickly in the real world.
Many entrepreneurs and subject matter experts have created and sold online courses to sell their knowledge to others. This is a quick, industry-oriented, practical way to learn new knowledge, efficiently.
If you want to be part of this trend and share a piece of the estimated $457 billion dollar market pie, these are the strategies I suggest you follow:
- Plan and define the strategy you want to use to deliver the content you plan to teach.
- Invest in videos. That means, creating an inexpensive studio at first, where you can teach your content. You can use your smartphone to do it at first, with a nice background, in a quiet environment.
- Design support materials like handouts, presentations, that will attract and entertain your students.
- You can begin publishing your content in platforms like YouTube or Vimeo initially and later purchase a dedicated online teaching platform like Kajabi or Thinkific.
19. Search Engine Optimization
If you get better and better at this skill, you can bring a lot of traffic to websites. There is a breadth of courses, a lot of them free, that you can take to master this skill.
Once you become somehow skillful, you can start doing some consulting by analyzing websites and giving businesses feedback on what can be done to improve rankings.
Leads are the lifeblood of any business and they will always be willing to pay to gain new.
20. Create a Digital Product
Digital products are electronic goods, content, pieces of media that are packaged together and can be sold online. Examples of these are PDFs, eBooks, audio or video files, etc.
The reason I put it on this list is because it is cost-effective, you don’t have to worry about any logistics and there are endless possibilities to create and market for any audience.
After the product is put together, promoting work begins using your own website, Amazon, email lists, or affiliate partnerships.
21. Social Media Marketer
Are you good at posting, getting likes, engaging with followers, getting clicks, tagging people, etc? Then you might have a career in social media marketing.
You can manage social media profiles for companies or individuals, spread their content, enhance their brands and increase social media following which is a time-consuming task that many don’t have time to do themselves.
If this is a hobby that you enjoy doing for yourself, you might consider doing it for someone else too and earn cash in the process.
22. Remote Tech Support
Many small businesses don’t have the budget or inclination to hire full-time IT support engineering staff and they rely on remote tech support services to solve and/or prevent computer problems.
I personally know several friends who have these types of services and do extremely well with them. They offer service policies that cover any tech-support incidents, maintenance, backups, network operations, security, among several other services.
Many businesses don’t look for tech degrees, they look for experience and knowledge instead, so you can start offering these types of services, reaching out to family and friends, local business owners like small companies like restaurants, shops, etc.
If you ever get stuck with technical difficulties you can’t solve yourself, you can also resort to Upwork or Fiverr for assistance.
23. Online Travel Consultant
If you love to travel and want to turn your passion to income, you could open an online travel agency and start earning. There is software you can purchase to create an online, like Travefy. You could also hire some freelancer to create a travel website for you and hook it to a travel reservations system.
Another option, would be to create a review vlog or a blog about travel, where you share your traveling experiences and get commissions for it, like hotels, restaurants, etc.
24. Virtual Home Tutoring
If you have the skills, knowledge and inclination to tutor studens virtually, this is a great business to start in 2022. You can provide the service virtually online and teach students just about anything, math, physics, piano, swimming, etc.
I would recommend a platform like Tutorme to get started.
25. Personal Shopper
Do you have a passion for shopping? Then this might be the business model for you.
Help people who don’t have the time to got shop for themselves and help them with their shopping needs. Build a website offering these services for a fee.
Easy to set up and earn money doing what you love. Greatest part of it is you can scale it as much as you want and in any market you desire.
The only hurdle is that you need to get a good reputation to gain the confidence of customers, offering your services to family and friends first, and using their testimonials can help with that.
26. Caregiving
Many families have aged or sick people in need of help and care at home. If you have some nursing experience and want to start a business in this area, you can start offering the services online.
To be able to offer these services properly, you and your staff will need a proper certification by a recognized body.
27. WordPress Consulting
WordPress is by far the most popular platform for building websites and content systems for the web. Businesses of all sizes use it to build blogs and web pages.
If you are well-versed in setting and maintaining WordPress websites, use this skill to build a profitable business. You can start a consulting business where you can help set build and grow websites built on WordPress.
There are a breadth of courses where you can learn about designing and building websites with WordPress, including Skillshare and Udemy
28. Buy and Sell Domain Names
One of the earliest business models on the Internet is still pretty much current today.
Don’t look to trade the most valuable ones, which are pretty much taken by now but look for trending domains that you can flip for money. The key is to identify trending names that have the potential to be sold later.
I don’t see steady or long-term business viability with this model but you can look to earn money with some opportunities. You can also create value in domains by building some content to attract traffic to a site, that can later be sold.
GoDaddy has some expert advice on this topic.
29. Drop Servicing
Great hustle idea that requires little to no skills to accomplish. The model is simple, buy a service for a low price, resell for a higher price, mediate and pocket the difference. Use any of the freelancing sites like Fiverr, Freelancer, Upwork.
The business consists of making a seller profile in any of the above sites, offering that same service for 2x or 3x the price you can hire another freelancer to do for you, and keep the profit.
There are a number of people making thousands of dollars per month, doing this process.
30. Offer a Stand in Line Service
Although it may sound like a joke, there are people who are willing to pay someone for standing in line for them. Task Rabbit is the best site I know to offer such kinds of services.
31. eCommerce Using eBay
eBay has been around for a long time and they have eCommerce sites all around the world. They have many tools to help you succeed, including searches for items buyers are looking for, looking for market opportunities where there is little or no competition, appraisal tools to help you better price your items, etc.
It will take some time for you to understand the best tactics to sell, how to build the best pages, images, descriptions but this site is a great opportunity to sell your own items as well as create your own online store.
32. Earn Money Doing App Testing
If you love testing new apps, you can earn some money doing it. Some companies hire lots of people to find bugs in apps when they are getting ready to be launched. They will give you instructions to follow when doing the tests.
After the tests are completed, you will get asked some questions.
Some of the best app testing opportunities can be found on these sites: usertesting.com, userfeel.com, betafamily.com, ferpection.com
33. Do some Errands or Custom Gigs
In the Internet era that we’re living in right now, there are countless innovative apps and services out there, for market needs that didn’t even exist before.
Would you like to become a tasker, like configure a printer, assemble a piece of furniture, do a home repair, paint, yard work, etc., and earn some money for doing it?
Then you can visit taskrabbit.com and offer your services. There is a huge assortment of tasks.
You will need to be screened and pay a $25.00 registration fee to enter. Once approved, you can pitch for any of the jobs.
34. Airbnb
Do you have property or some rental space in your home you can offer? Then Airbnb can be a good business choice.
Airbnb is a free service to list any rental space you have available and be guaranteed to be paid on time and safely.
Airbnb charges 3.5% of the transaction, once is booked and they provide a 1 million dollar damage protection insurance.
35. Rent Storage Space
Another one of the innovative services out there, are applications that allow you to rent storage space you have available for a fee.
Like with Airbnb, there is a website called Neighbor, that mediates the transaction, allows you to advertise for free, and provides a safe way to be paid on time.
Spaces to rent need to be safe, spacious, reliable, like garages, basements, bedrooms, etc.
The service provides a 1 million dollar guarantee insurance for liability.
36. Create an Online Course
Another way to make an income online is to create a course of something you’re really good at and would like to teach.
There are several platforms out there you can publish your course to and give you the options to receive payments from course takers.
The best and most known course platforms are Thinkific, LearnDash, Udemy, among others.
37. Mystery Shopping
Would you like to get paid to be a mystery/secret shopper?
There are sites you can sign up to do that.
The process is simple:
- Sign up for jobs
- Fill out a questionnaire based on your experience
- Once you are approved you will get opportunities via email or on the job boards
- You will get paid an hourly rate
Some good company websites you can check out are: IntelliShop, MarketForce, Secret Shopper
38. Pet Sitting
Get paid hourly as a pet sitter. The most important qualification is to love animals and there are a lot of families in need for these services.
Tasks usually include feeding the pets, giving care, watch for their safety, cleaning their mess, walking or taking them outside.
There are several apps out there you can check out like Care.com, Rover, Wag!
39. Play Video Games
There are a number of ways to make money playing video games, the most common are playing in online tournaments or posting videos of your awesome gameplay in YouTube.
The gaming pros are making fortunes competing in tournaments and I mean, earning millions of dollars a year. Of course, competition is very tough and you need to excel above thousands of gamers.
If this sounds like something you’d like to check out, go to FaceIt
40. Charge Scooters
This gig has become more and more popular as a side hustle, as in big cities electric scooters like Bird or Lime, are everywhere. These companies will pay pretty well for assistance charging the scooters.
Electric scooters need to be charged every day, so both Bird and Lime hire companies to pick up the scooters and charge them.
If you’ve never ridden these scooters, the process is simple, you just need to download their app, register and activate the scooters by scanning a QR code attached to them.
When done riding, you just drop them wherever you are and tell the app that you reached your destination.
The business model here would be to offer your service to pick up scooters, charge them at your home and return them back. You can typically charge $5 – $20 per charge.
Download either the Bird or Lime app and sign up to be a charger, they will send the charging cables and get some training sessions to learn how it works.
41. Take Paid Surveys
I am not very fond of this model, as I learned there are many scams regarding these types of gigs. Later I learned more about it and it seems there are some legitimate companies that offer good money for the service.
The good part about this side hustle is that you can do it in your free time and from home, earning an extra $250.00 dollars a month doing it.
Taking 20 minutes a day filling out survey opportunities to earn an extra couple of bucks, can really help pay down your bills or save some money for a vacation.
You can sign up for several of these sites, here are some legit companies:
42. Become a Bookkeeper
Great side hustle for people that like working with numbers. You can earn up to $30.00 dollars an hour, sending and receiving invoices, tracking payments and handling financial documents.
If you are wondering If you need to be an accountant to do this gig, you don’t. You can learn it from courses or books, even by watching YouTube videos.
If you get certified you can charge more for your services, earning up to $1600.00 a month doing it as a side hustle.
You can offer your bookkeeping services using a website or in a freelancing site like Upwork or Fiverr.
43. Rent Out Your Stuff
If you’re like me, you own plenty of things you don’t use anymore or use every once in a while.
Whether you’ve got an empty bedroom, a collection of dresses, athletic equipment, a car, a set of olf clubs, etc., it’s time to make some extra cash out of it.
Renting out all this stuff is a no-muss, no-fuss way of earning some money, without taking a lot of time. You can earn from $3 to $20 an hour doing so.
Some examples:
- Fat Llama – helps rent out your sports equipment, cameras, bikes, scooters, tools and pretty much anything else.
- Airbnb – for anyone with a spare room, space or property to rent. This site will connect you with paying travelers looking for accommodations.
- Splinster – premier bike rentals, snowboards, paddle boards. They take care of the logistics and will offer a $10,000.00 insurance for damaged or stolen items.
- Style Lend – lend your favorite style pieces, although they only select certain brands for approval. Start by creating a listing with a description and photos. Once approved, you’re ready to start renting your clothes.
44. Create a Proofreading Service
If you like to proofread content, setting up a service to improve written content can be lucrative. You can evaluate articles, fix spelling and grammar mistakes before a business publish them.
You can set up your own schedule, by creating a freelancing website that describes and highlights your work. If you’re not in that point yet, as with previous gigs, you can start doing these type of work in a freelancing website like Upwork.
45. Sell Items on Etsy
There are a bunch of places to sell items online but Etsy is pretty special. Unlike other marketplaces, Etsy focuses on handmade items such as clothes, home decor, jewelry.
The great thing about Etsy is that 40% of the consumers make repeat purchases and the market there has over 80 million active buyers.
Make sure you pay special attention to great customer service to build a following quicker, post good quality photos and sell a marketable product. Those are the requisites to succeed.
Etsy is an excellent option for crafters and creatives of any type.
46. Run Facebook Ads for Small Businesses
Another side hustle you can do If you are good at online marketing, is running Facebook ads for small businesses, to increase their traffic and visibility.
There are a wealth of YouTube videos and articles that will show you how the details how to do it successfully and you can make around $1000 – $1,500 per month / per client with just a few hours of work each week.
Digital marketing on Facebook includes:
- Finding and acquiring customers
- Creating effective ads
- Testing them
Facebook has a massive reach that small businesses don’t have access to and many small business owners lack the resources to run effective strategies.
47. Complete Tasks on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechancal Turk is a site that helps businesses complete tasks like simple data validation, image and video processing, information gathering, etc.
if you sign up for Mechanical Turk as a worker, you can complete simple tasks like transcription, research, in your free time.
The tasks on Mechanical Turk are simple microtasks that take a small amount of time to complete, although they pay less than a dollar per task, If you commit to a few hours per day, you can earn between $150 to $300 per week.
48. Join TaskRabbit
TaskRabbit is like Mechanical Turk but for physical jobs. Basically, people list micro-jobs that they need assistance with on TaskRabbit and you can accept the job and compete for it.
Tasks vary from assembling furniture, helping people mow their gardens, paint walls, etc.
As with the Stand in Line gig, when you join TaskRabbit, they will charge a $25.00 dollar fee to register.
49. Online Customer Service Assistant
These types of jobs are becoming more and more common, especially since the pandemic started in 2020. Many companies are realizing that hiring remote customer assistant representatives is cheaper and more efficient.
You can end up earning up to $10.00 an hour, depending on which company you work for.
To get started, you can apply for remote service assistant jobs, just like with any other regular job. Some good sites you can search are: indeed.com and remote.co.
50. Walk Dogs
Great gig for people that don’t have a specific skill and like walking in nature. All you need to do is be responsible and professional in treating dogs.
Dog walkers can earn from $10 to $30 per dog, per journey.
To get started you can visit the same websites as the Pet Sitting gig, Rover, and Wag!, just make sure you have insurance if it is required in your area.
51. Do Some Search Quality Rating for Google
Google offers a paid search quality rater program where you’ll get paid to evaluate the quality of websites that appear on search results. This job usually pays between $10 to $15 an hour and you search for these jobs on Glassdoor, Indeed and FlexJobs.
52. Sell NFTs
Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are getting a lot of buzz in the market today and are a very lucrative business you can do online. If you have artistic skills or know someone who does, NFTs can be a great way to generate income online.
There are a number of artists selling NFTs created from home.
To get started, get familiar with the minting process and how cryptocurrency and blockchain work. That way you can create NFTs to sell on marketplaces like OpenSea (one of the most popular), binance, SuperRare.
To be able to make this into a business, you will need to stay active in NFT communities. As you stay present in those forums, you can make connections with sellers and collectors that is key to long-term success.
53. Start a Voiceover Business
Have you seen movies or videos on YouTube where a narrator is describing the scene but is never seen? That is a voiceover actor.
Business is pretty good for this type of work. There are several ways to get started into the entertainment industry, like the following websites:
- Back Stage The largest listing of entertainment jobs available, (actors, singers, dancers and of course, voiceover gigs.
- Mandy.com A great resource for voiceover work, film and TV cast and crew jobs.
54. Teach English to Overseas Students
There is a demand for English teachers overseas, especially in China. Why not take advantage of technology and teach students English online?
VIPKid website is an online teaching and educational company based in China, that can pay $14 to $22 dollars an hour for native English speakers.
Chinese parents want their kids to learn English from American native speakers.
55. Rent Out Your Car
How do you feel about renting your car? The sharing economy services have made these types of weird businesses a reality.
Rental car agencies like Avis, Budget, etc., have become awful and expensive.
A company named Turo.com, has disrupted this market. People across the country are earning money by lending their cars to strangers.
The company will make it safe to rent your car, list it on their marketplace and make sure you get paid. Just like Airbnb with rental properties.
If you have a car that is just sitting out there, you may just give this a try.
56. Start an Online T-Shirt Business
The market for custom T-shirt printing is booming and growing. Starting an online T-shirt business is a popular choice for both beginner and veteran e-commerce entrepreneurs.
If you are thinking of starting this business, be aware that it’s pretty competitive. If you want to succeed, you’ll need to make sure that your store stands out from the pack. To ensure this, you will need to source high-quality products and have your own and exciting T-shirt designs.
There are T-shirt designers you can hire in platforms like Upwork and Fiverr.
After you validate your design you will need to find a quality sourcer either overseas or from a custom local sourcer like undergroundprinting.com. You can then create a website on a platform like Shopify and start your business.
57. Start a Monthly Box Subscription Service
Another online business idea that can be lucrative, using the monthly subscription box model.
With players like Dollar Shave Club and Bark Box, this business model can work for you too.
Examples of some more niches with this same business model:
- Bean Box Coffee Subscription Box
- KiwiCo monthly subscription box for kids with toys focused on helping them become creators and innovators
58. Start 3D Printing Business
3D printing is the latest technology in the printing business. State of the art 3D printer can now print over hundreds of different materials, including plastic, metal, and nylon.
The latest innovations in the industry have allowed for many business opportunities for entrepreneurs, with low competition and good profit margins. The 3D printing industry is definitely worth a try.
To start a business in this area, you will need to invest in a 3D printer and some training. There are many online courses you can take to learn about the technology, including Coursera, Udemy, and others.
After that, it’s just about investing in the technology and starting offering your services online through freelancing and an online presence like a website or social media.
59. Bug Testing
This is a service that all software companies require. The essence of this business is to build a crowdfund of experts and resources that can tackle this area.
This is a very unique online business idea, that can be quite lucrative. Visit BugFinders and CrowdSourceTesting to learn more about it.
60. SaaS Business Owner
Software as a Service or SaaS is a business model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is hosted in the cloud, basically.
Make sure you have a clear problem to address and a solution that alleviates it. If you’re not solving a problem, you don’t have a business.
After you have a solution you can start by finding a designer and a developer for your solution, build the product, and host it in any of the many hosting providers in the market.
With a working product, it’s time to dive into marketing and sales.
61. Mobile Laundry
This business idea is pretty creative, it’s pretty much an extension of an existing laundry business, that you can make more convenient by adding an online service. Let someone else deal with the high investment costs and low returns.
The model requires you to build a mobile application and/or a website, to offer this service. You can hire a freelancer and build it with any of the freelancing sites described above.
After that, you can market and promote, schedule deliveries and pickups, and voila!
62. Create a Data Entry Business
These services are necessary because most businesses have a need for data entry, information tracking, organization, and analysis.
The costs involved in starting this type of business ins minimal because they can be run from home or from anywhere for that matter. All that is needed is a computer with an Internet connection.
The customers are usually large corporate clients. Depending on your skills you can earn from $3000.00 to $6000.00 dollars a month. If you specialize in a particular niche or sector you may be able to earn a lot more.
63. Become a Professional Organizer
A professional organizer turns clutter and chaos into efficiency and harmony. These tasks can be done for households or businesses and can range from organizing a closet to designing a storage space for a company.
If you enjoy cutting through the clutter and helping others get their lives in order, you can start a home-based professional organizing business relatively easily.
Decide the scope of the service you want to provide, general or specialized. Obtain a business license and liability insurance. Join online seminars and take training courses. Start by doing some work for friends or family first.
Develop a good marketing plan with the help of a freelancing service and get as many testimonials and referrals as possible, to grow your client list.
64. Start a Virtual Reality App Development Business
VR development is kind of a futuristic concept but with a market estimated to grow to $44 Billion by 2024. If you are willing to start an online business for VR Application development, you may grab a big chunk of it.
Most people will need to start by learning VR concepts, and Udemy has a breadth of courses about it. There are courses to learn how to build VR games for mobile devices, you may want to try.
There are also courses for the more advanced programmers.
65. Start an IoT Development Business
Another futuristic concept but expected to grow at a very fast pace in the next few years. The number of connected devices as of 2018 was 17 billion and it is expected to double by 2025.
To start a venture in this field there is a lot of learning and research involved. Most of the IoT opportunities are in B2B (supply chain, data management, sensors, and more), try to observe what the market is looking for.
There is an increasing demand for programming and development of IoT solutions, you can learn more at Pluralsight and Udemy.
66. Buy and Sell Websites
You can think of this business as a real-estate business, buy undervalued websites, improve and redesign them and sell them for a profit. You can make money on the sale and on top of it as well.
There are several sites with brokers and marketplaces, like Flippa.com, FEInternational, and WebsiteBroker.com.
Once you purchase a website, you can work on building traffic and monetizing it and increase the monthly profits. Once you maximize these aspects you can sell it directly or through any of the brokers.
I suggest you learn to spot the pitfalls of a website and reduce money drains, through some training you can find online. Always look for proof of revenue and traffic before purchasing. Brokers can help you vet potential purchases.
67. Create Presentations
There is high demand for presentation creation services. Companies use them for communication, education and sales of goods and services.
Many organizations outsource the presentation creation to freelancers and presentation designers to save time.
To start a business in this area, you will need knowledge in presentation software and skills, especially in these platforms Keynote, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canva.
68. Sell your College Notes
Wanted to include this method here, because I’ve seen that it works well. Many students miss college classes and loof for well-written and structured notes leading up to exams.
If you have great notes that you can digitalize, present clearly and well-structured, you can earn money for work that you’ve already done.
Getting started is easy through websites like Docmerit or Stuvia, where you can upload your notes and sell them right away.
69. Buy and Sell on Online Auctions
Auctions allow vendors to sell products to customers that are trying to outbid each other to purchase them. Listings usually remain live for up to 30 days, which helps increase the bidding price.
You can start with your own unwanted items and later invest in products to resell for a profit. Online sites still attract millions of users every day with leading players being of course eBay, Bonanza, iOffer, among many others.
There are even some specialized auction sites for real estate, jewelry, electronics, etc.
70. Create WordPress Themes for Sale
Do you have the talent and desire to design websites and do some HTML coding? More and more people want to establish an online presence and the demand for themes is rising.
You can build some money from building attractive unique designs for WordPress that people can purchase. There are several marketplaces online to sell them, most notably ThemeForest and TemplateMonster.
71. Online Yoga Classes
I know people that take Yoga classes online every day and they love it. There are Yoga instructors that dedicate to teaching Yoga online as a full-time job.
If Yoga is a passion of yours and you’re a medium to advanced student, this might be the business for you. You can promote using digital marketing and a simple, attractive website, followed by an email marketing sequence.
You might want to start by offering some classes for free, to get some followers and attract new students. Follow the free classes with some charge more advanced lessons.
72. Catering Services
You don’t need to be a gourmet chef to start this business. You can start offering meals to friends or relatives and expand your customer base by offering more options to a customer base, once you build it.
By offering catering services you avoid the risks associated with owning a restaurant yourself. Most of the demand will be on holidays and weekends.
This business has traditionally grown slowly by word of mouth but today you can accelerate it by applying some digital marketing.
You can start by creating a good website with spectacular pictures of your best foods.
73. Lead Generation for Small Businesses
In 2022 and going forward for the next 10 years at least, online marketing, and especially traffic from Google, is going to become the single most important thing for small businesses.
They won’t have the time to master this skillset themselves and there are over 30 million small businesses in the US alone.
Lead generation is when a small business implements various strategies to build interest in the product or service and attract those that are interested to hopefully become customers.
Doing this business means that you have to master local SEO strategies, register small businesses in Google My Business directory listings and others like Yelp, Merchant Circle, Citysearch and other local directories.
It also means that you have to encourage visitors and especially customers, to post positive reviews about your business.
This model is very efficient and can provide a steady flow of passive income to you.
74. Cloud Migration as a Service
Hybrid clouds are the new normal and this business idea can give potential clients assistance to navigate through the rocky path of moving their digital assets to the cloud. Things like data workloads, IT resources, etc.
By the end of this year, 90% of global enterprises will utilize a hybrid cloud technology. Cloud migration as a service assists business owners in shifting a portion of their assets safely and securely to the cloud.
It’s still somewhat of a futuristic idea but companies offering solutions that minimize downtime and disruption will see substantial profitability.
75. Wedding Planner
Weddings have become very complex, resource-intensive events. To manage all aspects of wedding efficiency, couples these days look for credible wedding planners and they are willing to pay.
You can jump into this business If you have contacts with professionals like florists, caterers, travel agents, photographers, DJs, etc.
The process is time-consuming and intense but can bring abundant profits. An average wedding planner can charge up to $40.00 dollars an hour. There is also training available and you can get a diploma in the field.